Zoya (film)

Zoya
Zoya
	Film poster
Directed by	Lev Arnshtam
Written by	Lev Arnshtam;
Starring
Cinematography	Aleksandr Shelenkov
Music by	Dmitri Shostakovich
Distributed by	Soyuzdetfilm
Release date	1944;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Zoya (Russian: Зоя) is a 1944 Soviet biographical war film directed by Lev Arnshtam.^[1] It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

Plot[]

The film depicts the short life of a Moscow schoolgirl Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya who at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War became a partisan-infiltrator and was executed by the Germans in November 1941 near Moscow in a village Petrishcheva. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Cast[]

as Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
as Zoya's Teacher
Aleksey Batalov
as Boris Fomin
Rostislav Plyatt as German Soldier
as German Officer
as Owl
as Zoya's Father
as Zoya as a child (as Katya Skvortsova)
as Zoya's Mother
as Katya Tarasova
Vladimir Volchek as Komsomol Secretary

References[]

^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 379.
^ "Festival de Cannes: Zoya". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 January 2009.

External links[]

Zoya at AllMovie
Zoya at IMDb

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[1] Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 379.

[festival-cannes.com-2] "Festival de Cannes: Zoya". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 January 2009.

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